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...million movie was selected for the closing spot in the Venice Film Festival before Chan had finished post-production. (The movie will be released in December.) Indie icon Takeshi Kaneshiro (House of Flying Daggers), pop idol Jacky Cheung (Ashes of Time) and luminous mainlander Zhou Xun (The Little Chinese Seamstress) star as actors in contemporary Shanghai filming a musical set in the decadent 1930s. A love triangle ensues, giving the stars a chance to work out their feelings in song?and dance, choreographed by India's Farah Khan. ("Chinese people don't dance," Chan explains...
Much of Levenson's work depicts old-fashioned working-class life--people felling trees, mining a granite quarry, repairing locomotives, working a farm. That reflects his own blue collar background in Danvers, Mass. His Russian-immigrant parents were poor, but his mother, a seamstress, and father, a tailor, bequeathed good genes to Levenson and his three younger sisters. Today two sisters are also in their 90s, and the "baby" will be 87 on Sept. 30. Levenson, who yearned to be an illustrator, was able to attend the Massachusetts College of Art but left during the Depression. The only work...
Born Nov. 9, 1934, in the provincial town of Boras in southwest Sweden, Carlsson grew up in modest circumstances. The son of a seamstress and coffee-factory worker, he graduated from a commercial high school and went on to earn a degree in political science at the University of Lund in 1958. With Palme, Carlsson became a political protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, the architect of the Swedish welfare state. His first major post was as Minister of Education in the government formed by Prime Minister Palme in 1969. Carlsson served Palme until his death, acting...
...empty milk bottle, the suspicion being that the sailor might have fed the baby while transporting him somewhere. No amount of interrogation by Hartford officials could break down Johnsen's alibi for the night of March 1. The alibi was substantiated by one Johanssen Junge, husband of a trusted seamstress in the Morrow home at Englewood. Junge was described by Connecticut authorities as a cold, "steely" character. Both remained under informal surveillance. Johnsen was found to have jumped ship in Brooklyn several years ago and last week he was at Ellis Island awaiting deportation...
...Just having the bid opens so many doors,†said Thea A. Daniels ’05, a former captain. “We can have our choreography done by a professional, have our costumes made by a qualified seamstress instead of a team member, and focus on our dancing and what we need to do to actually win instead of the red tape behind actually getting to the competition...